On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Darren Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kenneth Crudup wrote: >>> On Sun, 18 May 2008, Eric S. Johansson wrote: >>> >>>> ... but ends up with me trying networkmanager 0.7. must say that with >>>> backported modules, wifi works great again. I am most grateful. >>> >>> What did you do?! I've been unable to get it to work from the SVN. >>> >> >> didn't use svn. not that much of a masochist. >> >> back port modules info here >> http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/making-intel-wireless-3945abg-work-better-on-ubuntu-hardy/ >> >> network manager 0.7 info from here >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676992 >> > > I think those packages are somewhat old, Alexander is the Ubuntu > Maintainer so they are certainly trustworthy but the feature set in > those packages is significantly less than recent snapshots. I know > that Alexander is busy and in the past he has stated that it is his > intent is to provide packages when NM 0.7 goes final so in the > meantime I rebuilt the packages Michael Biebl is building for Debian > SID and so far they seem to work well. I posted the packages and a > howto here: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=797059 > > Please do not post any bugs to Launchpad for these packages, they are > not in any way shape or form support by Canonical. > > These packages were rebuilt from Michael's repo as of May 9th. >
Also, all the credit for this and /none/ of the blame goes to Michael for these packages. I simply rebuilt them for Ubuntu, which may be different enough from Sid to cause issues. In my testing I haven't found any but it is possible so don't blame him (or me!) if your wireless card eats your cat. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list